Well Here’s the thing...
  …if you keep on doing the same things, you can only expect the same results!
  If you want to embrace 2012 with Optimum Health, Vitality and Energy then it is up to you to choose to do things differently... and the expert team at Mammoth Health are here to help you, support you, guide you and motivate you. All you have to do is DECIDE to make the change.

We have a new client at our Mammoth Health Naturopathy Clinic. She has a long-term chronic illness that has limited her over the years. But regardless of this she has DECIDED to make a change. She’s sick of using her condition as an excuse; a crutch. And she’s sick of feeling the way she does. She knows there are so many things she can do to improve her diet, her exercise and her mindset.

She’s decided she wants to get fit and healthy for 2012. Now she could easily have told me what she can’t do (or even put limits on herself and rationalised this in her own head). But she hasn’t. She’s just made a decision to change, to turn up to see what she CAN do. And this makes all the difference. She’s prepared to explore her own potential because until she gives things a go she’ll never know what she is capable of doing.
And so it is with all of us. If you are ready to take the plunge and get yourself Back on Track this year then we have just the Challenge for you.

Yesterday afternoon we farewelled our younger daughter Molly for an adventure she has been so looking forward to. She was accepted to be part of the crew on the Young Endeavour, sailing for ten days from Williamstown to Hobart. She had been counting the months, days and then hours and it has been nothing but pure excitement on her part. She had been feeling little fear or nervousness in her anticipation but just pure excitement for the challenge of the unknown. It was so great to see and hard not to get swept up in it all.
It got me thinking how, as adults, we sometimes lose this excitement for new challenges and experiences (and sometimes life). How often our fears and thoughts turn negative and consequently the new challenge or goal soon becomes unachievable or out of reach – so we give up. Negative thinking is actually a defence mechanism we employ to protect us from failing. It lowers our expectation of ourselves and so eases our embarrassment and soothes our pain .We sabotage our dreams and our goals because we fear failing in front of others (and ourselves). And so we go back to what we know, what is comfortable and never really realising our capabilities. Never really changing or becoming the person we dream to be.
Henry Thoreau once said “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

Making a change in our life starts with our mindset. People who succeed in any given area are no different to us – we all have inherent talents and abilities. The difference with those that do succeed is that they have a mindset of “Yes I can” and then they work hard to achieve whatever they have set out to do. Like us they will incur obstacles and setbacks and also experience the same fears and frustrations we feel. But their positive thoughts and actions enable them to overcome these obstacles and negative emotions.
I think we can watch and learn from our kids – the way they embrace life to the full and with a sense of adventure. They have the ability to live in the moment, to have dreams and get excited about these dreams. It’s not to say they don’t feel nervous, or anxious or fearful. They just “feel the fear and do it anyway”.  And sometimes they fail.
But I think, as it is with all of us, it is the way they learn to deal with failure and think about failure that will determine how successful and happy they will be and how many of their dreams and goals they will realise.
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“Because it’s Not a Rehearsal”
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In our ever-increasing busy lives not many of us stop and think about where our food comes from; whether a fair price has been paid to the producer of that food or if anyone has been exploited in the process of getting that food to our table.

I had never thought about it myself until a couple of years ago when I was fortunate enough to attend a function celebrating and highlighting the importance of ‘fair-trade”. Kylie Kwong (Australia’s ambassador for fair-trade) was there along with fair-trade coffee growers from Papua New Guinea. I was fascinated to hear their story and blown away by the impact our choices, as western consumers, have on the lives of those in the third world. Needless to say I had no idea the amount of work by growers that goes into the cup of coffee I enjoy every morning.